According to author and Time Magazine journalist Amanda Ripley, kids in the world’s few educational superpowers are learning to make complex arguments and solve difficult problems, skills that will help them thrive in a modern world. What are those kids, their schools and their parents doing differently? That’s what Ripley set out to answer in The Smartest Kids in the World: And […]
Read More >Face awkwardness head on
A few years after I started Collegewise in Southern California, a male student of mine came straight from the beach and sat down at our meeting…without a shirt on, a scene not lost on my coworkers or the Collegewise students and parents who were in our office. There was nothing to do at that point […]
Read More >When an honor isn’t an honor
High school students often get mail notifying them they’ve been nominated for supposedly prestigious awards, or for membership in self-described exclusive organizations, but the honor comes with a price—the student has to pay to make it official. It smells like a scam because it almost always is, as this entry on University of Virginia’s admissions […]
Read More >“Poor Me” essays
I once did a presentation with an admissions officer from UC Irvine who gave the following advice to applicants regarding writing essays that shared sad tales from their lives, stories that he called, "'Poor Me' essays." “That kind of story might make me feel sorry for you. But your job as an applicant is not […]
Read More >Why the snooze button makes you sleepy
Tom Rath knows how to do research. He’s the author of the Gallup Organization’s landmark StrengthsFinder 2.0, which became the world’s bestselling non-fiction book in 2012. He’s just released his new work, Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes, and his findings on sleep might be particularly interesting to sleep-deprived high school students. Rath’s research found […]
Read More >The admissions magic bullet?
When I contrast those families who actually enjoy their college admissions process with those who find it an anxious, stress-inducing ritual they just hope to survive, one of the most striking differences between their two approaches is this: Do they focus on things they can—or cannot—control? You can’t control whether or not Brown says yes. […]
Read More >Breaking ground
We'll be moving in to our new space in Plano, Texas with The Princeton Review later this month. It's the first center of its kind in either of our companies' histories, and it's not going to be the last. An exiciting time for Monica and for all of us.
Read More >How to work with your high school counselor
NACAC put together a comprehensive guide for students called "How to Use Your School Counselor," which you can view here. "Use" is actually a good term, because it's not your counselor's job to thrust unsolicited help and advice on you. The onus is on you to actually use the resource. Ask for help and you'll almost certainly get it. […]
Read More >How Collegewise manages by trusting
I’ve read more than a dozen books about how to manage employees, but nothing they preached has ever been as effective as this: hire great people; then trust them to do great work. Collegewise now has 16 counselors working out of 12 offices. Most of those offices have one or more counselors working without a […]
Read More >For students hoping to play sports in college
I’ve seen many families who’ve gotten their hearts broken by the college athletic recruiting process. Most of them made one or both of two common mistakes: 1. They hung their hopes on the student’s athletic ability somehow leading to an admission to their dream college. 2. They misinterpreted a college coach’s positive words […]
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